Environmental stress cracking of poly(vinyl chloride) in alkaline solutions

The environmental stress cracking (ESC) effects on PVC of various high pH sodium hydroxide environments have been studied. The behaviour of PVC specimens in air and pH 12, 13, 13.5 and 14.39 sodium hydroxide solutions has been examined under three-point bend, tensile and creep conditions. Two parameters were used in three-point bend testing to determine the effect of an applied strain and high pH environment on the stability of PVC, namely time to craze initiation and width of crazing. It was found that, in general, crazing occurred sooner and to a greater degree with increasing strain and pH, although there was some evidence that craze growth was most rapid at pH 13.5. The results also indicated a critical strain value of 1.5–1.6%, below which crazing was not observed in any of these alkaline environments. Creep and tensile testing revealed that the time for which a PVC specimen was immersed in the environment was very important in determining the severity of the environmental effect. Creep tests at elevated temperatures showed that the time for the effects to be manifest decreased with increasing temperature. Creep rates were highest in pH 13.5 sodium hydroxide solution indicating that this was the most hostile of the environments considered.     

Mechanism of dc electrical conductivity in poly(vinyl chloride)

Dc conductivity measurements were performed as a function of temperature on unplasticized poly(vinyl chloride) and on PVC plasticized with various amounts of dioctylphthalate. The conductivity curves consist of two or three straight-line segments denoted I, II, and III with increasing of temperature. The intersection of segments I and II occurs at the glass-transition temperature T_g. The slope in region I is independent of the DOP concentration, while the slope in region II decreases slowly with an increase in the amount of DOP. No dependence of the conductivity on the molecular weight was found. From the conductivity curves, activation energies were evaluated below and above T_g. These satisfactorily coincide with those determined by dielectric loss or by electrical transient phenomena. A dc conduction mechanism is proposed based on electronic hopping favored by the micro-Brownian motions responsible for dielectric losses. These motions involve smaller chain lengths below than above T_g. The experimental results are discussed and interpreted in terms of the proposed mechanism.     

Tensile creep of thermoplastics: Time‐strain superposition of non‐iso free‐volume data

The dimensional stability of thermoplastics is characterized by their tensile compliance D(t,σ,T) as a function of time t, stress σ, and temperature T. Creep retardation times are controlled by the free volume available for underlying molecular (segmental) motions. Tensile deformation of polymeric materials, whose Poisson ratio is smaller than 0.5, is accompanied by volume dilatation that can be identified with an increase in available free volume. Consequently, a steady increase in strain with time during tensile creep experiments accounts for shortening of the retardation times. The superposition of as‐received tensile compliance curves is difficult because any point of a curve requires a shift factor along the time axis that differs from those of other points. In this article, tensile creep at a constant stress and temperature is viewed as a non‐iso free‐volume process. A procedure is proposed to transform as‐received data to a pseudo‐iso free‐volume state that eliminates this deficiency and permits construction of a generalized compliance curve for the pseudo‐iso free‐volume state. This curve can be used for calculation of real‐time‐dependent compliance for any selected stress in the range of reversible deformations. As the superposed curve can be generated with several short‐term creep tests (e.g., 100 min) for a series of stresses, the proposed procedure saves experimental time. The effects of physical aging on tensile compliance (observed previously by other researchers) are interpreted in terms of the proposed approach in appendix A . © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 41: 736–748, 2003     

不同孪晶界密度银纳米线拉伸形变行为的分子动力学模拟

采用分子动力学方法模拟了不同孪晶界密度银纳米线的拉伸形变行为,分析了孪晶界密度对多晶银纳米线屈服强度、弹性模量和塑性变形机理的影响.在弹性形变区域,孪晶界的存在对杨氏模量变化的作用不明显.在塑性形变阶段,首先从表面边缘开始产生位错成核,然后延伸并受阻于孪晶界.在进一步拉伸载荷作用下,孪晶界将作为位错源产生新的位错.模拟结果表明,银纳米线的强度与孪晶界和晶粒的尺寸有关.孪晶界密度较小(即晶粒的长径比大于1)时,此纳米线的屈服应力比单晶纳米线还要小,只有当孪晶界密度较大时(即晶粒的长径比小于1),孪晶界使得纳米线得到强化.综合分析了孪晶界和晶粒尺寸对银纳米线的影响,为构建高强度金属纳米线打下基础.最后讨论了温度和拉伸速度对孪晶纳米线屈服应力所产生的影响,随着温度的升高,孪晶纳米线与单晶纳米线的屈服应力差先升高后趋于稳定;当拉伸速度逐渐增大,孪晶纳米线与单晶纳米线的屈服应力差先稳定后增大.     

Phenomenon of delayed reversible deformation (inverse creep) of solids in surface-active media. Steel-3 in gas hydrogen

The tensile test of steel samples within the stress range lower than the yield strength showed that, in a hydrogen gas medium, creep is developed, which is delayed with time and becomes completely reversible with the removal of a medium. It is found that the rate of reversible creep is controlled by the transport of hydrogen gas through structural defects into incipient subcritical cracks formed upon the action of stresses. Original Russian Text ? M.M. Lordkipanidze, 2006, published in Kolloidnyi Zhurnal, 2006, Vol. 68, No. 2, pp. 282–285.     

不同孪晶界密度银纳米线拉伸形变行为的分子动力学模拟

采用分子动力学方法模拟了不同孪晶界密度银纳米线的拉伸形变行为, 分析了孪晶界密度对多晶银纳米线屈服强度、弹性模量和塑性变形机理的影响. 在弹性形变区域, 孪晶界的存在对杨氏模量变化的作用不明显. 在塑性形变阶段, 首先从表面边缘开始产生位错成核, 然后延伸并受阻于孪晶界. 在进一步拉伸载荷作用下, 孪晶界将作为位错源产生新的位错. 模拟结果表明, 银纳米线的强度与孪晶界和晶粒的尺寸有关. 孪晶界密度较小(即晶粒的长径比大于1)时, 此纳米线的屈服应力比单晶纳米线还要小, 只有当孪晶界密度较大时(即晶粒的长径比小于1), 孪晶界使得纳米线得到强化. 综合分析了孪晶界和晶粒尺寸对银纳米线的影响, 为构建高强度金属纳米线打下基础. 最后讨论了温度和拉伸速度对孪晶纳米线屈服应力所产生的影响, 随着温度的升高, 孪晶纳米线与单晶纳米线的屈服应力差先升高后趋于稳定; 当拉伸速度逐渐增大, 孪晶纳米线与单晶纳米线的屈服应力差先稳定后增大.     

Synthesis and properties of hydrophilic segmented poly(urethanes) based on poly(ethylene glycols) and glycerol monostearate

Poly(urethanes) having the structure of comb-shaped copolymers were synthesized from glycerol monostearate, poly(ethylene glycols) with M _n = 300–6000, and 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate. Effects of the molecular mass of segments and of the contents of soft segments and side chains on both the glass transition temperature of the soft segment and on the melting point and the enthalpy of melting of crystalline phases involving soft segments and side chains were studied by DSC and IR spectroscopy. The resulting comb-shaped copolymers were shown to exhibit thermoplastic and hydrophilic behavior. It was demonstrated that the ultimate tensile strength, yield stress, and Young’s modulus of copolymer films increase with an increase in the molecular masses of soft and hard segments with their ratio maintained constant.     

Molecular weight–mechanical property interrelationships. V. Poly(vinyl chloride) fracture surfaces: The effect of molecular weight and vapor environment

The fracture and craze surfaces of four PVC fractions (M?_w = 51000 to 228000) and two bimodal blends were examined with a scanning electron microscope. The fraction with the lowest molecular weight gave brittle fractures when fatigued in nitrogen and ethanol vapor. Walls of crazed ductile matter formed at the surface of higher molecular weight samples. Thickness of this ductile material increased with molecular weight. There appeared to be a balance between craze propagation into the sample and brittle fracture due to dilitational and tensile stresses in the interior regions of the test films.     

Mechanical Properties and Phase Transition of High Clay Content Clay/Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Nanocomposite Hydrogel

Summary: A series of high clay content Clay-S/PNIPAAm nanocomposite hydrogels (S-N gels) has been successfully prepared by in situ polymerization. Their mechanical properties and phase transition behavior has been systematically investigated. It was found that S-N gels show high tensile strength, high elongation at break, fast stress relaxation, high hysteresis, and poor resilience, which may be ascribed to the hydrophilicity and flexibility of PNIPAAm chains. It was also concluded that the macroscopic phase transition behavior of S-N gels depend on the ratio of Segments II (thermosensitive segments) to Segments I (non-thermosensitive segments).     

Phosphorus‐containing polyamide Mg(OH)2 nanocomposite coating on surface of poly(vinyl chloride) thin film: Study on thermal stability,flammability, and mechanical properties

Surface of poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) thin films was coated using DOPO‐based polyamide (DBPA) coating and DBPA/Mg(OH)₂ nanocomposites (DBPN) coating by dip‐coating process. For this purpose, a new DOPO‐based dicarboxylic acid (DBDA) was synthesized and used for preparation of DBPA and organically surface modification of Mg(OH)₂ nanoparticles. The effects of DBPA and DBPN coatings on the morphology, thermal stability, combustion, and mechanical properties of PVC were investigated. The uniform dispersion of Mg(OH)₂ nanoparticles (nano‐MDH) and organically coating manner on the surface of the PVC films were confirmed by ATR‐IR spectroscopy, X‐ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE‐SEM), energy dispersive X‐ray, and elemental mapping. From thermal gravimetry analysis (TGA) results, the 10 mass% loss temperature (T₁₀) increased from 268°C to 272°C in PVC coated with DBPA‐containing 10 mass% of modified Mg(OH)₂ (MMH). Also the char residue, first and second mass loss temperatures of all PVC coated were increased compared with the neat PVC film. According to microscale combustion calorimetry (MCC) results, the peak of heat release rate (pHHR) and total heat release (THR) were decreased from 128 ± 2 to 69 W/g and 12 ± 1 to 4 ± 2 KJ/g for PVC film coated with DBPA‐containing 10 mass% of MMH, compared with the neat PVC. From tensile test results, tensile strength was increased from 31.78 ± 0.8 to 39.64 ± 0.9 MPa for PVC coated with polyamide‐containing 5 mass% of MMH compared with the neat PVC.     

Modification of EVOH copolymers with ϵ‐caprolactone: synthesis and compatibilization effects in PE/PVC blends

Polyethylene‐polycaprolactone graft copolymers with different chemical structures (i.e. different number and length of PCL grafts and molecular weight of PE backbone) were synthesized from various EVOH copolymers and ϵ‐caprolactone, using Aluminum isopropoxide as catalyst, and were tested for their compatibilizing capability in PE/PVC blends. PE and PCL segments in the graft copolymers were found completely immiscible, while PCL segments of the graft copolymers were found completely miscible with PVC. When graft copolymers were added to PE/PVC blends they proved to be good agents for the dispersion of PVC phase in the PE matrix. SEM showed also improved adhesion between the dispersed PVC phase and PE matrix. Moderate improvements in mechanical properties were also observed in preliminary tensile tests.     

Mechanochemical reactions on poly(vynilchloride)

The creep of a rigid material based on poly(vinylchloride) modified with benzidine is studied under tensile stress conditions. Based on the proposed rheological model, the creep equation is derived. The modifications induced by the mechanical stress on some physical properties of the material are studied. The analysis of the facture surfaces shows a brittle character of the fracture, especially in the final stage of the process.     

Effects of surface modification of fumed silica on interfacial structures and mechanical properties of poly(vinyl chloride) composites

Poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC)-based composites were prepared by blending PVC with nano-SiO₂ particles, which were treated with dimethyl dichlorosilane (DMCS), γ-methylacryloxypropyl trimethoxy silane (KH570). The dispersion and interfacial compatibility of nano-SiO₂ particles in PVC matrix was characterized by SEM, which indicated that DDS had a better dispersion and compatibility than UTS but worse than KHS. The mechanical properties, processability and effective interfacial interaction of nano-SiO₂/PVC composites were studied. The nano-SiO₂ particles treated with KH570 or DMCS significantly reinforced and toughened the PVC composites. The maximum impact strength of PVC composites was achieved at a weight ratio of nano-SiO₂/PVC:4/100. The tensile yield stress increased with increasing the content of treated inorganic particles. The incorporation of untreated nano-SiO₂ particles adversely affected the tensile strength of the composite. Although the equilibrium torques of all nano-SiO₂/PVC composites were higher than that of pure PVC, the surface treatments did reduce the equilibrium torque. The interfacial interaction parameter, B, and interfacial immobility parameter, b, calculated respectively from tensile yield stress and loss module of nano-SiO₂/PVC composites, were employed to quantitatively characterize the effective interfacial interaction between the nano-SiO₂ particles and PVC matrix. It was demonstrated that the nano-SiO₂ particles treated with KH570 had stronger effective interface interaction with PVC matrix than those treated with DMCS, which also had stronger effective interface interaction than the untreated nano-SiO₂ particles.     

Segmental orientation in blends of poly(ϵ-caprolactone) with poly(vinyl chloride) and nitrocellulose

Binary blends of polycaprolactone (PCL) with poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) and nitrocellulose (NC) have been shown to be compatible over a wide range of composition. In this study, segmental orientation was determined by dynamic, differential infrared dichroism for each component in the PVC and NC blends with PCL. In compatible amorphous blends, PCL orientation behavior was essentially the same as for the orientation of NC or the isotactic segments of PVC. Syndiotactic PVC segments showed higher orientations, reflecting the greater intrachain stiffness of the microcrystalline PVC phase. PCL segments in the blends where the PCL component was semicrystalline were found to exhibit orientation characteristics which were quite different from the orientation of the nitrocellulose and PVC components of the blends. By assuming that the NC orientation represented the response of the amorphous PCL, the orientation of the crystalline PCL was determined for a NC blend using a simple model of additive dichroism response. In PVC blends, a similar analysis using the amorphous-component response of PVC was made. In both cases the results from the dichroism model showed fair agreement with the PCL unit cell C-axis orientation from independent dichroism calculations.     

聚氯乙烯燃烧特性及HCl的生成机理

采用热重法对聚氯乙烯（ＰＶＣ）的燃烧过程进行了研究,探讨阳聚氯乙烯燃烧科技司,并由它们的微分热重曲线计算出的反应动力学参数及影响反应常数的因素进行了研究。同时,考察了恒速升温和快速升温过程ＨＣＩ的生成特性。结果表明,ＰＶＣ的燃烧机理是由三个过程决定的,可用三个一级反应表示。ＰＶＣ的燃烧过程的第一阶段为脱氯阶段。第二阶段的活化能和指前因子明显低于第一和一阶段。此阶段为挥发分释放阶段。升温速率的增加导     

Modification of poly(vinyl chloride). X. Crosslinking of poly(vinyl chloride) with a soft segment of an elastomer containing thiol groups

To obtain poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) of excellent toughness, a new method of crosslinking PVC is proposed in which PVC is crosslinked with the soft segment in an elastomer such as liquid Thiokol. The reaction can be accomplished by immersing PVC–Thiokol blends in liquid ammonia at 20–30°C. A similar reaction occurs in aqueous ammonia when hexamethylphosphoramide is used as an activator. Characteristics of the crosslinked PVC thus obtained and of the controls of a similar uncrosslinked composition (PVC–Thiokol LP-8, 100:5 by weight) were as follows: tensile strength, 7.3 and 4.8 kg/mm²; elongation at break, 30 and 2.5%; Young's modulus, 3.5 × 10⁴ and 2.9 × 10⁴ kg/cm²; tensile impact, 88 and 15 kg-cm/cm³, respectively. The crosslinked PVC as plasticized with dioctyl phthalate (DOP) and the control blend (PVC–Thiokol LP-8–DOP, 100:10:10 by weight), respectively, showed tensile strengths of 5.9 and 4.8 kg/mm², elongations at break of 44 and 24%, Young's moduli of 2.5 × 10⁴ and 1.6 × 10⁴ kg/cm², and tensile impact strengths of 62 and 120 kg-cm/cm³. As the crosslinkage through the soft segments increases up to about 5%, the elongation at break, Young's modulus, and tensile impact, in addition to the tensile strength, are improved. This is different from the results so far observed with the crosslinked amorphous polymers and is characteristic of the products of crosslinking through the soft segment. The experimental results are discussed in this paper.     

Effects of temperature and stress on creep properties of ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) foils for transparent buildings

Creep properties of ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) foils are indispensable for evaluating serviceability limit state, especially under high temperature and high stress. This paper concerned temperature and stress effects on creep properties of ETFE foils with experimental and theoretical studies. Experimental results showed that dimensionless stress effect on creep properties could be higher than that of temperature effect. A unified equation incorporating temperature, stress and time based on experimental results was determined and could be utilized to calculate the stress limits and long-term creep strains. The stress limits in response to creep strain of 10% were less than 5 MPa, 4 MPa and 3 MPa for temperature ranges of 40–50 °C, 50–60 °C and 70–80 °C, respectively. The long-term creep strain of ETFE foils under 40 °C was 5.96% concerning 50-year working time.Master curves of ETFE foils were evaluated considering time-temperature superposition (TTSP) and time-stress superposition (TSSP). Long-term creep strains with these master curves were identified and compared with experimental creep strains. It is found that TTSP could be a little underestimation of creep strains while TSSP could overestimate creep strains to some extent. Moreover, the maximum creep strain difference was only 0.48%, which justified the feasibility and suitability of using the unified equation to predict creep strains of ETFE foils.     

A microelectrode study of the mechanism of the reactions of silver(II) with manganese(II) and chromium(III) in sulphuric acid

The variation of the steady state limiting current for the Ag(I)/Ag(II) oxidation wave with the radius of the microdisc electrode, concentration and temperature has been used to probe the kinetics and mechanisms for the reactions of silver(II) with manganese(II) and chromium(III) in 10 mol dm⁻³ sulphuric acid. It is shown that the current density for the silver(I) mediated oxidation of manganese(II) is controlled by the diffusion of manganese(II) to the surface except for microelectrodes with radii below 5 μm. On the other hand, the current density for the mediated oxidation of chromium(III) is determined by the rate of the Ag(II)/Cr(III) reaction over a range of conditions. In contrast to the Ag(II)/water reaction, its kinetics can be fitted to a mechanism where the initial electron transfer from Cr(III) to the Ag(II) is the rate determining step.     

化学交联聚氯乙烯树脂的合成和结构

研究了氯乙烯/交联单体悬浮共聚时,交联单体种类、浓度和聚合温度对化学交联聚氯乙烯树脂结构的影响.对于氯乙烯/邻苯二甲酸二烯丙基酯(VC/DAP)悬浮共聚体系,凝胶含量和凝胶交联密度随DAP起始浓度的增加而增大;DAP浓度相同时,凝胶含量和凝胶交联密度随聚合温度上升而下降;当凝胶含量较高时,分子链物理缠结对凝胶交联密度有较大贡献,凝胶交联密度随凝胶含量增加而快速上升.在相同交联单体浓度下,氯乙烯/马来酸二烯丙基酯(VC/DAM)共聚物的凝胶含量最大,VC/DAP共聚物次之,氯乙烯/乙二醇二甲基丙烯酸酯(VC/EGDMA)共聚物最小,这是由于DAM单体的竞聚率小于1,且含有马来酸双键,EGDMA单体的竞聚率远大于1.     

Dye reorientation as a probe of stress-induced mobility in polymer glasses

The reorientation of dye molecules can be used to monitor the segmental dynamics of a polymer melt. We utilize this technique to measure stress-induced mobility in a lightly cross-linked poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) glass during tensile creep deformation. At 377 K (18 K below the glass transition temperature Tg), the mobility increased by a factor of 100 during deformation with a stress of 20 MPa. Generally, the mobility increased as the stress, strain, and strain rate increased. After removing the stress, we observed that the enhanced mobility slowly disappeared during strain recovery. At 377 K, when the stress is lower than 11 MPa, almost no mobility enhancement was observed. Once the stress crossed this threshold value, the mobility dramatically increased.